Letters from America
By: Alexis de Tocqueville ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Frederick Brown
Contributors: Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866; Brown, Frederick, 1934-
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780300153828
Work titles: Correspondence
Description: Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States for the first time in May 1831, commissioned by the French government to study the American prison system. For the next nine months he and his companion, Gustave de Beaumont, traveled and observed not only prisons but also the political, economic, and social systems of the early republic. Along the way, they frequently reported back to friends and family members in France. This book presents the first translation of the complete letters Tocqueville wrote during that seminal journey, accompanied by excerpts from Beaumont's correspondence that provide details or different perspectives on the places, people, and American life and attitudes the travelers encountered. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes excerpts from travelling companion Gustave de Beaumont.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The crossing; title: In New York; title: Upstate New York and west; title: New England; title: From Philadelphia to New Orleans; title: The last leg : from New Orleans to Washington and New York; title: Appendix: Tocqueville on civil law in Pennsylvania.